Product Description

Designed for creative professionals who need the disk striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition provides an easy to use wizard interface for configuring your system for optimal performance. With the most highly integrated storage, backup, security and drive management software on the market today, the Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts. The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping frames critical in quality video editing. The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows platforms. It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the Oxford FireWire 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Professional digital video and demand seamless, real-time access to huge, data intensive files Cache Buffer - 16MB Average seek time - 9.0 ms Integrated Interface - FireWire 800, IEEE 1394b, iLink up to 800MB/sec data transfer rates, FireWire 400, IEEE 1394a, iLink up to 400MB/sec data transfer rates, USB 2.0 and 1.1 - up to 480 MB/sec data transfer rates Maximum Sustained Transfer rate - FireWire 800 91MB/sec, FireWire 400 43MB/sec, USB 2.0 33MB/sec System Requirements - Apple G4 processor or greater, Mac OS X (10.2.8 or later), Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher, Windows 2000 Professional, XP Professional or XP Home Edition, 128MB (256 recommended) RAM, CD-ROM drive, Internet connection for system updates

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38452 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Maxtor
• Model: STM310004OTAB06-RK
• Dimensions: 6.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 1TB

Features

• Massive storage capacity for your digital portfolio
• User-configurable RAID solution; Use RAID 0 for high performance disk striping or RAID 1 for automatic mirroring
• Maxtor DriveLock security feature password-protects the contents of your drive, helping to safeguard your files if the drive is lost or stolen or against unauthorized users
• FireWire 800 for fast data transfers
• Pre-formatted for Mac easily formatted for Windows

Amazon.com Product Description
The Maxtor® OneTouch® III Turbo Edition Drive is a high-performance, large-capacity external storage solution designed for creative professionals needing the disk-striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data.

User configurable RAID solution.

Pre-formatted for Mac; easily formatted for Windows.

Real time access, backup, store and protect
With the most highly integrated storage, backup, security and drive management software on the market today, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts. The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping frames—critical in quality video editing.

The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows® platforms. It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Plus when you need it most, you can boot your Mac OS X directly from the drive. And to keep things simple, a wizard interface makes it quick and easy to format for Windows.

Using Maxtor’s simple user interface, you have the option to easily back up your entire computer drive or selected files either automatically or at the touch of a button. The Maxtor DriveLock security feature password-protects the contents of your drive, helping to safeguard your files if the drive is lost or stolen or against unauthorized users.

For creative professionals needing the disk-striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, this user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance and conquers multiple-streaming without dropping frames critical in quality video editing.

Product Highlights

· Ideal storage solution for high-quality video editing and other intensive disk-access applications	· User-configurable RAID 0 and RAID 1
· Available in 1-TB and 1.5-TB capacities	· FireWire® 800 interface for fast access to files
· Triple interfaces —FireWire 800 up to 800 MB/sec data transfer rates —FireWire 400 up to 400 MB/sec data transfer rates —USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible up to 480 MB/sec data transfer rates	· Pre-formatted for Mac easily formats for Windows
· Oxford 924 chipset	· Boot Mac operating system directly from FireWire 800 drive
· Customizable Maxtor OneTouch® button	· Maxtor DriveLock™ protects contents of drive if lost or stolen
· Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security and backup scheduling	· Creates historical backup versions with comprehensive system and data restore to a point in time
· System Rollback rolls back your PC settings to a better point in time while keeping data current*	· Data synchronization between two or more computers
· Cool operation and modular design for easy stacking	· Connect up to 62 FireWire devices
· Connect up to 127 USB 2.0 devices with USB hubs	· Plug and play storage
· Hot-swappable	· Power on/off button and power management utilities included
· 7200 RPM, 16MB cache buffer

*Windows only

Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition-RAID performance doesn't get any easier than this.


What's in the Box
External hard drive, EMC Retrospect Express HD backup software, 9 to 9 pin FireWire 800/1394/iLink cable, external AC power adapter, installation CD with backup software and user guide, quick start guide, Maxtor 1-year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews

Amazon needs to have a Zero Star rating for products like this
Terrible product, even worse customer service. The drive died after two months, and after an hour on the telephone with their customer service representative she then told me that before she would authorize a warranty replacement she would email me a document of additional terms and conditions, and unless I agreed to every one of these additional conditions they wouldn't honor the warranty. She then (AND I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP) proceeded to ask me a series of "Homeland Security" questions to determine if I was a terrorist. At that point I said I refused to waste any more of my time answering stupid questions, and she said that in that case they would refuse to honor the warranty.

Buyer Beware
I bought this drive in January 2007 in order to backup my desktop.

It worked fine until June 2007 and suddenly my computer could not recognize the drive. According to Seagate (who now owns Maxtor) the drive had failed and would need to be replaced.

My drive is still under warranty, however, Seagate could not specify a replacement time since the current have no inventory of this drive. In the meantime I will have no drive for my backups. Even though this is Seagate/Maxtor's incompetence I am responsible for a $19.95 for their Advanced Replacement service.

Although this service is not officially required, unless you have your orginal box and packing materials the warranty is voided when shipped other than the very specific way the instruct. So, you must buy the Advance Replacement service to have a replacement drive sent to you. You then return your original drive via the packing materials used for that drive.

All in all this wouldn't be so horrible except that Seagate/Maxtor can not give me any sort of estimate as to how long it will be until I receive the replacement drive.

zero stars- terrible drives-- twice.
I set the raid1 and watched the drive completely fail twice. The second time I was on the phone with a tech at Maxtor walking me through the series of instructions. The phone support was some of the worst I've ever had. Do not buy this drive!
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Update August 2007- The third replacement drive failed and is limping along without raid 1. The replacement (4th! in a year) arrived and failed within a day (refurbished). I want my money back! Amazon- why do you put the positive reviews first when there are 26 zero-1 start horror stories? So called support could not locate me previous three returns-- maybe they are using their own drives and lost the data!